A lot of shit has gone down in the past couple days. And although many of you were caught completely unaware, I'm sure most of you actually saw this coming. What happened? To put it mildly, Stephen Tinkleman and I had a "falling out."

I've had a good day to think about this, and can now speak a bit more objectively. I think I am willing to admit now that this was inevitable. Stephen and I have been moving in two completely different directions for a while now and the so-called friendship has come to a halt.

What exactly is a friend? If I were to judge by Steve's actions it would be someone who is constantly attacking you. Giving off nothing but negativity and sucking the life out of you. Sounds more like a parasite to me.

I think it would be at this point that I lament the loss of someone I treated like family, but its been months since we've exchanged anything more than insults. Or maybe you people didn't notice that whenever I post an IM conversation that its almost completely edited out except a few clever lines here and there. The surprise of what our friendship used to be and where we are now has even worn off.

Being friend and neutral party in this matter, and general peacemaker to the world of chaos, I would like to comfort and console my buddies. I will hear both sides and make a ruling. Sentencing will result in the distribution of bragging and bitching rights... Let's get it on.

considering you mention the falling-outness between you two, yes, all previous entries with IM convos/insults are seen in a different light. you two just can be goofy at times and the insults can seem harmless.. esp. if theyre just typed out on a screen- the miscommunication and sometimes misjudging of an emotion through the computer.

and now, the un-heady vaness would like to speak:

you'll be alright- i can see this deterioration has affected you in several ways, but know there's others who are there for you- i think you can find them on this comments page as well as elsewhere.take care. :)